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Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

I wouldn't call myself 'into the DJ scene.' I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I'm not at the clubs. I've never been to a rave.

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I went back to DJ'ing in 1987, and it's been an incredible second career for me. Plus, it's almost a parallel universe. If you don't go to underground clubs, you wouldn't know what I do or who I am. So there's been a whole new audience of people that don't even know I'm that 'Boy George', the one their mother used to like.

I was DJ'ing house music way back when - I'm not like a new house guy.

I focus all the way on the club. That's why my music sounds the way it does, with the 808, heavy kicks. Every aspect of it is about the club, so I don't really care about the person who's listening on an iPod.

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

I started DJ-ing in the '90s. DJ-ing is in every record I do. When I make records I make them for DJs.

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

DJs are the new rock stars.

I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.